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Old Posted Dec 16, 2006, 1:15 AM
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Originally Posted by toddguy View Post
I really hope San Francisco gets some spectacular and stunningly beautiful design that is worthy of it. Something that says 'San Francisco"..and is iconic and elegant and becomes another landmark(and feasible of course).

*Holds out hope for San Francisco to get something incredible now that the original Chicago Spire is dead*
The problem is, it's likely we won't know it when we see it. The building which is now iconic of San Francisco, the TransAmerica pyramid, was hated when it was first proposed and built. I'm also afraid that whatever the architects come up with will be massaged into mediocrity by the endless review process and planning requirements that San Francisco requires. That happened more or less with the pyramid too which was was originally designed to be taller.
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